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Stockyard


Categories / Architecture/Architectural Monuments/Public Buildings and Edifices

STOCKYARD (65 Moskovsky Avenue), an architectural Neoclassical monument. It was built in 1823-26 (architect I. I. Charlemagne). It is a prominent example of a utilitarian building. The stockyard (or Petersburg slaughterhouses) was used for sale and later also for slaughter of cattle brought to St. Petersburg. It encompassed a central building, several outbuildings and an inner yard (territory about 10 hectares). The main facade of the central three-storied building, overlooking Moskovsky Avenue, is accomplished with a three-angled pediment and adorned with a moulded panel depicting horns of plenty; the ground floor is divided by three arches. At the entrance there was a pair of bronze bulls standing on pedestals (1827, sculptor V.I. Demut-Malinovsky), nowadays they decorate the entrance to the Samson Meat-Processing Plant. The central building is connected to the outer 1.5-storied buildings by a rusticated fence. In 1907-1908, St. Nicholas Church was erected in the yard (not preserved). In 1933, on the territory of the Stockyard a milk plant was established (nowadays Petmol Milk Works No.1.

References: Смоленский П. О. Бойни и скотопригонные дворы. СПб., 1902; Памятники архитектуры Ленинграда. 4-е изд., перераб. Л., 1975. С. 430-431.

S. V. Boglachev.

Persons
Charlemagne Iosif Iosifovich
Demut-Malinovsky Vasily Ivanovich

Addresses
Moskovsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 65

Bibliographies
Смоленский П. О. Бойни и скотопригонные дворы. СПб., 1902
Памятники архитектуры Ленинграда. 4-е изд., перераб. Л., 1975

The subject Index
Samson, Meat-Processing Plant


Charlemagne I. I. (1782-1861), architect

CHARLEMAGNE Iosif Iosifovich (1782 - 1861, St. Petersburg), architect, graphic artist, privy counsellor (1861). Born to a family of French origin, the brother of L.I. Charlemagne. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts (1803)

Moskovsky Avenue

MOSKOVSKY AVENUE (in 1918-50 - Mezhdunarodny Avenue, in 1950-56 - Stalina Avenue, after I.V. Stalin), from Sennaya Square to Pobedy Square, one of the main thoroughfares of St